Alteryx’s Business Analytics Empowers New Generation of Data Artisans
I attended the Alteryx user conference called Inspire 2012 (Twitter: #Inspire12) in Denver this week. This fairly new analytics software company…
SDC @ Strata – Impressions from the floor
Strata has grown quite a lot since last year's Santa Clara gathering. There are 2,000 attendees, and though that's small…
Back to the Future: Moving forward by revisiting the past
As I am about to embark on the bi-annual Teradata User Group tour (and hope to see some of you…
Why BI-COE: Struggling to justify ROI?
Current BI landscape is cluttered with too many tools and technologies. The plain vanilla BI deployments rarely produce desired results.…
New Report on Decision Management Technologies – The Four Capabilities
As regular readers know, we have released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. The core…
Analytics Make Smart Grids Smarter
The advent of smart grid and smart meter technology is changing the utility industry’s business model. As a result, utility…
Top 14 Business Intelligence predictions for 2012
Don’t confuse continuity for laziness. On face value, rehashing events already transpired as ‘predictions’ may create the appearance of lethargy.…
Just One Word, Ben – “Data”
What advice would you give Benjamin Bradock in 2012? The attached inforgraphic from EMC makes a compelling case for choosing…
SDC @ Strata – Edd Dumbill – Rockstar Unicorns
Edd Dumbill of O'Reilly, creators and hosts of the Strat Conferences, opened the day saying, "Companies are asking, 'How do…
SDC @ Strata – Doug Cutting on Hadoop, Apache and Open Source
Doug Cutting addressed the Wednesday plenary audience for 10 minutes and spoke about Hadoop. He carries the title of "Architect"…